Faylaq al-Sham is threatening to withdraw from northern Hama checkpoints and is blaming Jabhat Fateh al-Sham & the ex Jund al-Aqsa members now merged with the JFS group for recent defeats, northern Hama countryside.

Pro-opposition media is claiming that Syrian government forces have bombed Fija water station in Wadi-Barada, meaning that thousands of people in Damascus and around are threatened with a water crisis. Pro-government sources have claimed that the rebels are the ones threatening a water crisis in Damascus by having poisoned the water coming from Wadi-Barada. Photos show damaged Fija water station by alleged bombing by Syrian government forces.

Turkey's Deputy PM Numan Kurtulmus called the video from IS depicting the burning alive of two Turkish soldiers in Syria "fabricated footage." Kurtulmus was quoted as saying by the Anadolu Agency: "Trying to demoralize Turks by spreading propaganda through sharing fabricated footage is not patriotic… If we had verified information, we would share it with the public,".

A court in Russia has sentenced Alexei Kungurov, a 38-year-old blogger from Tyumen, Western Siberia, to two-and-a-half years in prison for 'justification of terrorism' after he criticised Russian airstrikes in Syria.

Iranian Defence Minister Hossein Dehqan: The reason for our presence in Syria and Iraq is that we regard their security as ours. Terror will hit France, the United States, Sweden and other countries if we don't oppose it in the Middle East.

PM Netanyahu will not meet with foreign ministers of Britain, France, Russia, China, Japan, Ukraine, Angola, Egypt, Uruguay, Spain, Senegal and New Zealand and their ambs will not be received at Israel's FM